Just a Memo

Here’s my second team for Fantasy Basketball. It was using the default stat categories, and have only a total of 12 team managers.

1. (5) Dirk Nowitzki - DAL » PF
2. (20) Dwight Howard - ORL » C
3. (29) Joe Johnson - ATL » PG,SG
4. (44) Greg Oden - POR » C
5. (53) David Lee - NY » PF,C
6. (68) Rasheed Wallace - DET » PF,C
7. (77) Mike Bibby - ATL » PG
8. (92) Randy Foye - MIN » PG,SG
9. (101) Kirk Hinrich - CHI » PG,SG
10. (116) Tayshaun Prince - DET » SF
11. (125) Bobby Simmons - NJ » SG,SF
12. (140) Rudy Fernandez - POR » PG,SG
13. (149) Hakim Warrick - Mem » SF,PF

Just had a 14-team fantasy basketball live online draft earlier at 8:45pm. All I can say is that it was pretty darn long w/ 14. 12 would’ve been great.

Meanwhile, the league is hosted by Yahoo. I can definitely say that I like playing on there best as their UI/UX just rawks. Other than it being 14 team managers taking about 1-minute and 30-seconds to do a pick, I was upset at first grabbing the 13th spot in the draft order^[1]. But I guess, it was a good thing on the wrap-around. Here’s how my team shaped up to be:

1. (13) Chris Bosh - TOR » PF, C
2. (16) Baron Davis - LAC » PG
3. (41) Jason Kidd - DAL » PG
4. (44) Al Horford - ATL » PF, C
5. (69) Michael Beasley - MIA » SF, PF
6. (72) David Lee - NY » PF, C
7. (97) Jameer Nelson - ORL » PG
8. (100) Raja Bell - PHO » SG
9. (125) Ricky Davis - LAC » SG, SF
10. (128) Monta Ellis - GS » PG, SG
11. (153) Andres Nocioni - CHI » SF, PF
12. (156) Mikki Moore - SAC » PF, C
13. (181) Vladimir Radmanovic - LAL » PF

I was trying to pickup Rudy Fernandez (Portland Trailblazers » PG, SG) for my 13th-spot but he got picked up at the end of the 12th-round. There were a couple of more guys in front of Radman but hearing that he’ll be starting in front of Lamar Odom and Trevor Ariza as a Small Forward, I say why not. He’ll probably get some dishes from the inside and sink some threes in. Being a player with only PF status at the moment, he’ll need to start at least 3-games if I recall correctly in terms of Yahoo dubbing him as a SF.

Anyways, I’m happy overall with my draft being 13 out of 14 team managers. But if you got any suggestions with regards to picking up another Shooting Guard and/or Center, let me know. I’m thinking I might need a SG to fill in that 3rd-spot rotation till Monta Ellis heals up.

1. Lebron James went #1. Then Chris Paul #2. I would’ve taken Chris Paul personally, but you can’t go wrong with either of them. The league settings were Yahoo default in terms of position. The stat categories had the additional OREB and AST/TO. [↩]

So I just got home from a flight from SWA–I’m in LA now. As I’m trying to setup my Fantasy Baseball lineup for Saturday, I came across one of my pitchers’ news tidbit. It was for Germano; a Padres pitcher. Keep in mind, I haven’t seen ESPN or any sports news yet…

Jun 8 San Diego Padres SP Justin Germano (knee) was hit near his left knee by a foul ball off the bat of OF Hiram Bocachica in the third inning, Friday, June 8, against the Seattle Mariners, according to the Associated Press. After sacrificing Bocachica along, Germano went into the clubhouse, although he ended up staying in the game through five innings.

After reading this, the first thing that came across my mind was that the ball magically turned into a heat-seeking sidewinder. Yeah–exactly. How the heck did this happen, or even how the heck could it happen?

I mean, your on the mound, and you get hit by a “foul ball”?!?!

Damn. I just need to watch Sports Center.

Update: 5 minutes later. While trying to win some dough on Blingo, I searched for “Hiram Bocachica”. http://www.hirambocachica.com/ … Oh. HA! =) Maybe the writer of that snippet should’ve specified it was his own damn teammate. Just maybe. I mean come on, not everyone knows every teams’ players.

Just got an announcement from YPN that they have launched the Yahoo! Publisher Network Blog.

This blog is intended to be the Yahoo! Publisher Network resource for publishers, by publishers. In it, you’ll find not only what you might expect from a product-focused industry blog–the latest on issues, new releases, and tips–but also in-depth how-to’s, publisher interviews, industry trends, links to articles and other news and information you can use. You will also, we think, find a community that will help you to learn how to be a more successful and profitable publisher.

With certain page elements like a callout and a “Zeitgeist”, it seems apparent that they’re promoting their new babies: del.icio.us and Flickr. Not to mention, a quick CTRL+U (or CTRL+SHIFT+U) exposes:

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.0.2" /><!-- leave this for stats -->

I guess Matt Mullenweg and team would be happy with that.

Just last week, pre-Valentine’s Day, Yahoo! shows it love to the public by launching User Interface Library and Design Patterns Library. Not to mention, the crazy cats over at the Yahoo! UI department have started a blog as well. Dang, they seem to be grinding and sharing great tools with everyone. I like that. You may read more about interesting technology via Yahoo! Developer Network.

Special thanks goes out to Blingo.com, that I came across Peter Freitag’s blog entry about it. It’s just too bad I didn’t win anything =|